The History
Aurora was first heard about in 1985, where, in the Pentagon's budget request, a censor's error left an item labelled "Aurora", with a reference to production funding starting in 1987. It was located to the SR-71 and U2's production costs. (Two other spy planes). The Pentagon refused all requests to comment on it, and has never been mentioned since.
Soon after, the New York Times reported that the U.S. Air Force was working on a secret spy plane that could possibly reach Mach 6 at super high altitudes. This information was attributed to Pentagon Sources.
In early 1990, the U.S. officially retired it's SR-71 spy plane fleet. They say they did this since satellites can now cover all of the needed spy missions. This is very strange for several reasons. Firstly, satellites are limited in number and are in fixed orbits. Secondly, the operating costs of spy planes are a fraction of the cost of satellites, at about 7%. Even if there WERE enough sattelites to cover the world, it would not be a bad investment for a backup system so pilots could be scrambled to fly immediately. Thirdly, the USAF made no objection to this 'decision', odd for an organisation overflowing with pilots who want to fly.
Around the same time, two magazines, Aviation Week and Space Technology published reports about an incredibly loud aircraft taking off from Edwards AFB, with a pulsing sound at about 1 second.
From 1991 to 1992, there were many reports about flights between mach 3 and 4 between Air Force Bases, and sonic booms loud enough to be recorded on U.S. geological service reports.
In 1992, the magazine 'The Scotsman' reports that a RAF air controller had seen a radar blip appear that quickly acceleratd to mach 3 from Machrihanish AFB. When Machrihanish was called, they told the magazine to "forget it".
Later in 1992, a photographer took photographs of contrails resembling doughnuts on a rope, or beads on a string. (Pictures Below) Days later, similar trails were seen over Machrihanish. These pictures are evidence of a Pulse Detonation Wave Engine. (PDWE)
The Aurora is said to have the lates technology in propulsion, avionics, spy technology, and stealth technology.
Speed: 5-8 times the speed of sound (mach 5-8).
Length: Estimated 110 feet.
Wingspan: Estimated 60 feet.
Ceiling: Estimated 150,000 feet above sea level.
Design/fuselage: Supposed to have the shape of a diamond, or a flattened American football,with tiles designed to absorb the heat of the friction at travelling at such high speeds.
Powerplant: The propulsion for this is supposed to be either a pulsejet engine or pulse detonation wave engine (PDWE) for supersonic speeds, and a normal jet engine for subsonic speeds.
PDWE: (Below) Liquid methane or liquid hydogen is injected onto a specialized area on the fuselage. This creates a 'thrust wall' that pushes air molecules away from the nose of the aircraft.which then propels the aircraft further. Not much is known about this.
PulseJet: These use the forward speed of the engine to compress incoming air, which is then ignited in the ignition chamber, creating an engine with better economy than continuous pressure engines, a very high thrust to weight ratio, mechanically simple.
Missions: The Aurora performs reconaissance missions, taking high altitude photos and hi-tech images.
Armament: None. This is a reconnaisance aircraft only.
-U.S. strangely retired it's SR-71 spy plane fleet with no known reason or replacement
-Aurora showed up in the 1985 U.S. budget request by a censor's error, right beside 2 other spy planes
-Pentagon refuses to comment on any such plane
-Pictures of 'doughnuts on a rope' contrails, indicationg pulse engines
-Radio enthousiasts hear radio com. between Joshua Control, (Edwards AFB) and a high flying aircraft callsign 'Gaspipe'. Using terminology normally used by Shuttle landings, "you're at 67,000 feet, 81 miles out", soon followed by "Seventy miles out now, 36,000 feet, above glideslope" was heard. It was confirmed that the SR-71 nor the U-2 was in operation then.
-USAF applied to buy 4,000 acres of land overlooking Area 51, after residents report hearing PDWE's
-Freedom ridge, also overlooking Area 51, was shut down
-Crew of a 747 climbing out from L.A. filed a near miss report after an "unidentifiable supersonic aircraft" looking like a "lifting body, like the foreward fuselage of an SR-71 but without wings.
-New York Times writes a report on a Spy Plane that could reach speeds in excess of Mach 6, which is attributed to Pentagon sources.
